Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 2

Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College.

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Page 19 Among these may especially be named the unparalleled drought so generally
disastrous to vegetation throughout the country . Your Committee herewith submit
the subjoined statement of the products derived from the department under their ...

Page 20 The crop was therefore late , and much injured by the drought . On lot No . 5 ,
dressed with De Burg ' s super - phosphate of lime , the corn was the heaviest
and stoutest , yielding only one bushel of soft , or pig , corn to the acre . Thus it
will be ...

Page 24 John A . Nash . * The oats were so injured by the drought that they were cut for
fodder and considered worth about the same as English hay . The Committee on
Labor also presented the following REPORT . 24 . BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .

Page 30 Scarcely had the summer opened upon us when complaints began to be heard
in all parts of the country of the terrible effects of a drought almost without a
parallel in the annals of agriculture . To one wholly unacquainted with our climate
, with ...

Page 31 This is but a feeble and inadequate picture of the suffering and despair which
attend a long - protracted New England drought . But the immediate ill effects of a
long drought are not its only evil consequences . It is too often followed by a ...

Page 139 - O'er mount and vale, where never summer ray Glanced, till the strong tornado broke his way Through the gray giants of the sylvan wild ; Yet many a sheltered glade, with blossoms gay. Beneath the showery sky and sunshine mild, Within the shaggy arms of that dark forest smiled XXX.

Page 32 - We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian corn, and sowed some six acres of barley and pease ; and according to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings, or rather shads, which we have in great abundance, and take with great ease at our doors.

Page 155 - ... for the men, and Indian meal for the oxen. Some beans, tea, and molasses, are added. Formerly hogsheads of rum were considered indispensable, and I have before me a bill of supplies for a logging concern of three teams in 1827-28, in which I find one hundred and eighty gallons of rum charged.

Page 155 - ... that is, most hands are required when the distance is shortest, because the oxen, returning more frequently, require their loads to be prepared more expeditiously. Having built their camps, or while building them, the main roads are to be cut out. These run from the camps to the landing places, or some stream of sufficient size to float down the logs on the spring freshet. Other roads are cut to other clumps of timber. They are made by cutting and clearing away the underbrush, and such trees...

Page 160 - Very frequently he is obliged to make one contract to have the timber cut and hauled to the landing-places, and another to have it run down ; for the river drivers are a distinct class from the lumberers. Most of them, indeed, are lumberers ; yet it is but a small part of the lumberers that are river drivers. A great part of the lumberers are farmers, who must be on their farms at the season of driving, and therefore cannot undertake anything but the cutting and hauling.

Page 157 - ... trees that cover the low lands adjoining the river, and breaking up jams that form in narrow or shallow places. A jam is caused by obstacles in the river catching some of the sticks, which in their turn catch others coming down ; and so the mass increases until a solid dam is formed, which entirely stops up the river and prevents the further passage of any logs. These dams are most frequently formed at the top of some fall Ħand it is often a service that requires much skill and boldness, and...